Word: trappings
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Especially effective is Macbeth's last encounter with the witches. A green-lit trap in the stage is the cauldron in which they make their unholy brew. Simultaneously the vertical circle functions as a top view of the cauldron, changing colors constantly like a kaleidoscope. When "a baboon's blood" is added and Macbeth drinks of the brew--a fine idea--the circle turns red. Then superimposed come the three apparitions, followed by the series of eight kings as a pinwheel. It's a show of virtuosity, but it works...
...case. The difference is that four years ago a feminist defined herself in opposition to the square sexist world. She was a naysayer to a tradition of role playing grown dyspeptic, practicing toughness instead of timidity, sloth instead of chic, either anti-sex or sexually liberated. Today the trap is complicity...
After each shot, the projected image changes to show the computer's notion of where the ball would have landed. The machine also flashes the yardage gained and the remaining distance to the pin. If the computer decides that the ball has landed in a sand trap or water hazard, there is a one-stroke penalty. Putting, however, is primitive: the player must move to an Astroturf green and aim at a real hole...
...cause trouble again. The routine called "disarticulation," a word that used in Brazil to mean the "breaking up of a gang." A student in Sao Paulo was rather severely disarticulated this month, for example, after apparently reneging on a promise to finger one of his friends. Before springing the trap, he supposedly went to a bar and ordered a beer, then suddenly dashed into the street to elude his police monitors and was never again seen alive. The police duly produced a truck driver who explained to reporters that he had accidentally run down the student and killed him. However...
...many black students, intellectualism is synonymous with the white academic world and its justification of the exploitation of black people. Theoretical inquiry is viewed as a trap in which one is politically co-opted and actively neutralized. Intellectualism becomes a world of empty theoretical assertions and irrelevant metaphysical abstractions...